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Imagine thinking that all 8.2 billion people in the world have to agree with you on everything. Imagine having the myopic narcissism to think that anyone that doesn't align with your world view is inherently evil.
Once you decide others are evil ("literally Hitler"), you can easily justify almost anything - and still think you're in the right.
Imagine surrendering ownership over your own existence to the point that anyone and everyone that does not validate every aspect of your existence is a threat. Imagine having it so good that you need to invent demons to fight.
Imagine thinking that a guy sitting by himself on a folding chair with a microphone and a social media account with a mission of dialogue and debate is a threat to you. Imagine thinking that a guy who is willing to talk to anyone about anything was an existential problem. Imagine feeling the need to physically silence someone that explicitly rejected violence as a means of getting his way. Imagine that everything that made him good also made him a threat.
The ends justify the means.
Imagine buying into the "my violence is speech but your speech is violence" nonsense.
Such a waste. Imagine thinking that the gun is the problem.
Not all societal struggles are noble. They're dressed in the trappings of causes and language and "making a difference," but are mostly people pushing for more control and power. Undercurrents of class conflict are easy to find if you look. Working the system is an entitlement that brings no shame.
Fighters are not afraid to use all the tools available to pursue control and power (and often wealth). When you're fighting, you use every avenue available. You may espouse a philosophy, but ultimately your philosophy is that anything you do or desire is warranted to win. Dialogue is not a virtue. Why talk with your enemy? Why give them a "platform"? Better to destroy them.
It isn't a secret. Alinsky published the playbook.
"If only they would better understand, they'd see..." Presuming good faith or pointing out a hypocrisy or inconsistency misses the point. Never explain, never apologize. Everything is malleable in the name of the cause. "Queers for Palestine?" Sure. Just keep fighting. The long march must continue.
Most dangerously, both fighters and sheep want to think highly of themselves. Ego must be served.
Think the right things. Show that you're not "one of them." In the ongoing struggle for power, your "tribe" is the one right and true tribe. Heresy is punished. Push further into the unhinged to show your true commitment to the cause. Accumulating power is good because they all imagine they should have the power. Power for power's sake, but power is also useless unless wielded.
Useful idiots also think the alligator will eat them last. They also have the arrogance of elevating themselves above all else, including God or a judeo-Christian moral framework. Why wrestle with a moral foundation of natural law from God when I know better? Easier to substitute the religion of climate or DEI or whatever the grievance of the day is.
How do you reason with people that despise your existence? How do you reason with people that despise your existence and feel morally justified and compelled to do so? How do you live with people that are dedicated to fighting you?
What happens when the bubble gets shattered? What happens when all the people who didn't realize they were in a fight realize they are in a fight?
The era of "reasonable people can differ" is gone. The era of "live and let live" is on literal life support. Many still can't comprehend that their mere existence is viewed as a threat. Many still think the media reports the "news."
The "moderates" or "precious independents" presume that peace and prosperity is the default without recognizing both are the exception. Few recognize the precarious perch upon which our daily lives rest.
We trusted that others would act the way we would and value the same things we value. We were wrong. We removed strong foundations and thought there would be no cost. We thought the center might wobble but ultimately hold because it always has before. We "took the high ground" and absorbed the body blows because we didn't think we had to fight. We incrementally committed suicide.
You may not be interested in the fight, but the fight is interested in you.
Will we fight?
The great sorting has been underway for some time. Red states and blue states. Red counties and blue counties. Migration data shows people are voting with their feet and their future.
X has broken the media monopoly and allowed voices to be heard and find each other than did not before. It created such a threat that governments are still fighting to shut it down. If they can't control it, it must be destroyed.
What happens as historical pivot points force more people to "see"? A guy sitting on a chair and a woman sitting on a light rail seat did not perish by accident. Both were calculated and intentional.
Recognizing you have a problem is the first step to dealing with the problem. The rules of the game have changed. Charlie overturned the rock and shined a spotlight to show what was beneath. It earned him a bullet but what was seen cannot be unseen. How many people now see with greater clarity? Do those people now realize they are in a fight?
What causes a break? What makes it different this time?
What happens when the center does not hold? What happens when there is no center?
Will we fight? What will be left to fight for? What will victory or defeat look like? Does it happen with or without us, despite us or because of us?
"Fighting" does not mean random violence or even physical violence or blindly attacking flawed people and institutions. It means taking an active role in our own life. It means being skeptical in places we used to trust. It means being firm in places we used to bend. It means finding allies with values rooted in natural law. It means defending truth. It means saying prayers to recognize our blessings and remember we are created in the image of God but we are not God. It means acting like citizens rather than subjects. It means acknowledging there are wolves out there and the flock needs shepherds to look after the sheep.
Sorry, this was the Cafe I thought I posted before I went out. This was written before the world changed.
Supposedly the "world's most dangerous bird," a cassowary investigates a woman. He doesn't seem that bad. (He's a Gentle Giant. He's thinking about becoming a rapper and enrolling in CUNY.)
Before tonight's game we held a moment of silence in memoriam of Charlie Kirk.
Kirk founded the youth activist group “Turning Point USA” and had become a fixture on college campuses. Charlie Kirk, a husband and father of two children, was 31 years old. pic.twitter.com/Fz5xPlmdu0
FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday night that the suspect is now in custody. The investigation is still ongoing.
"The [suspect] for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody," Patel posted on X. "Thank you to the local and state authorities in Utah for your partnership with the FBI.
We will provide updates when able."
* La Raza "You're Racist for Not Subordinating Yourself to My Race" Maryland Man and "Dreamer"
* BLM Anti-Racist Boer-Hunter
* Just Another Democrat Killing People to "Save Democracy"
I saw a tweet, or a purported tweet, by an asshole with a Star Wars Cantina Band name threatening that "something big" would happen to Kirk today. I don't really want to post it because I don't have any idea of its authenticity.
Update: I don't know why I'm hiding it. You be the judge. It might be fake, it might be real, it might be real but just another bitter loser left-wing Satan worshipper praying to his dark god of lies and chaos.
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
Our hearts are shattered. America has lost one of its greatest champions. A loving family has lost the most extraordinary husband and father. All of us must now dedicate ourselves to defeating the evil that stole Charlie from this world.
As Sven said, find the "network" and arrest everyone even sixteen hops away from the killer. "Beryl Howell showed us the way."
“We're in a war right now to save this country. And so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary in order to save the country." pic.twitter.com/bdj1rlsDT5
During the @TMZ livestream today, employees at TMZ could be heard CHEERING 30 seconds before @charliekirk11’s death was announced on the TMZ livestream. They were happy to hear the news of Charlie Kirk’s death and can be heard clapping and cheering before passing the news to Harvey Levin, who was hosting the stream.
@HarveyLevinTMZ needs to condemn this.
I have clipped the livestream before they try to delete it.
Shameful and disgusting behavior by TMZ. Shame on them. Charlie is a husband and a father. He was murdered in cold blood.
From Clyde Shelton:
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray
The bullet that silenced Charlie Kirk also killed the moderate right. It may have gone straight through his throat, but it went straight through the heart of the moderate right. It died with him. There is no more middle ground.
Cosign. The left doesn't understand the cold, ice-cold anger that we now feel. We have been murdered, and have arisen again as undead vampires without hearts who will do anything to avenge Kirk (and all the others the left has murdered, including children).
The gloves are off. We are beyond the point of fucking around.
And when you tell us to "moderate our rhetoric" -- Fuck You.
From bonhomme: A little mirth in this bleak day.
This is beautiful 😍 Liberal in Massachusetts jumped out of her car to record ICE, but forgot to put it in park 🤣
Beautiful words of comfort from our Lord Jesus Christ about the eternal life we have in Him:
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die."
NEW: President Trump has ordered all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff until Sunday at 6 PM in honor of Charlie Kirk.
A powerful and immediate gesture from our Commander-in-Chief.
Charlie gave everything for this country. Let's give him the honor he deserves.
The House of Representatives held a moment of silence to commemorate Charlie Kirk, and a democrat interrupted it. The people celebrating Kirk’s death and disrespecting his sacrifice aren’t just random people, they’re elected democrats. It’s the whole left. pic.twitter.com/x4m0xgCUvQ
Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.
In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione.
They further say that the deranged Democrat arrested at the even is not the shooter, who remains at large.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday at an event in Utah and has been confirmed dead at the age of 31.
Multiple sources confirmed his passing to Just the News.
Kirk was speaking at an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
Despite an initial statement from the school confirming that the suspect was in custody, the person initially arrested was apparently not the shooter, who remains at large, CNN reported.
President Donald Trump noted his passing:
We are in a different world than the one we woke up in. (And that one wasn't that great either.)
I will repost TJM's post tomorrow, when there's no so much breaking news. Sorry, TJM.
I'm also sorry for saying that posters posting this sad news were trolls. I've just seen so many leftwing celebrations on Twitter (at Reddit and BlueSky and TikTok), I thought that lefties were now infesting the comments to dance on Charlie Kirk's grave.
I wish * had something wise and comforting to say.
I will say that he was a great moral crusader, smart tough and full of guts, and that he inspired many in life and will inspire still more in his death.
I pray for him. I do not pray for his killers, and those who celebrate his killing. For them, there is only cold, deadeyed hatred.
"Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God."
Matthew 5:4-8
Rest peacefully in the merciful arms of Jesus, Charlie. May the Lord give your family peace.
Posted by: Marcus T
Tolkien had a good thought on this:
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till."
I recognize this guy, but can't name him. I want a name. I want a name to publish.
I think it's Matthew Dowd, ABC "News's" former "political director."
Do hateful words lead to hateful actions? Boy I sure hope that's not true for your sake, Matt.
Update:
Community Notes & Violations
@CNviolations
BREAKING: It's reported Charlie Kirk is in critical condition. According to the Associated Press.
Critical isn't necessary terrible, as long as he's stable. I think "critical" just means ("just") that he is under close observation and it's a minute-by-minute thing. But if he's stable -- and I don't know if he is -- then there's a good chance he can be saved.
Update: By word of mouth, he's stable -- but they now fear he'll be paralyzed.
62 They're worried about Kirk having a spinal injury now. Survived blood loss now prayers that he's not paralyzed.
Posted by: JROD
TikTok leftists are celebrating the assassination. Why Trump continues allowing this Chinese PsyOp to continue, I'll never know. Maybe Barron is telling him "Young people like it."
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
Actually, you should go see what they are saying on BlueSky right now.
Clarifying.
If Rumble was banned for allegedly supporting the J6 protest -- what should happen to BlueSky for glorifying political terrorism?
Update: Reddit too. Again, if Rumble was banned for glorifying a mere *raucous protest,* what should happen to Reddit for glorifying actual political murders?
MSNBC: THE SHOOTER MIGHT HAVE BEEN BEEN "A SUPPORTER SHOOTING THEIR GUN OFF IN CELEBRATION" UPDATE: Video of Arterial Blood Spraying Out of Kirk's Neck is an AI Fake!
—Ace
Update! Marina Medved said that the video showing blood pouring out of Charlie Kirk's neck is an AI Fake.
Marinaa Medvin
@MarinaMedvin
There is an AI-altered video circulating showing a close up of a bullet going into Charlie Kirk's neck.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk is real. His injury is real. The long-range video of the shooting is real. But the close-up video that just started circulating is AI.
Don't share AI-generated videos of real events. It creates confusion and causes people to doubt the reality of actual videos depicting real life.
So Kirk might have just been scratched! There is still hope.
69 47 Breitbart reporting that Kirk is receiving a blood transfusion
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at September 10, 2025 03:31 PM (HYKHz)
Hope that's true, since it obviously means he's still alive. Motherfuckers.
BREAKING: DEMOCRAT RADICAL SHOOTS CHARLIE KIRK IN THE NECK AT UTAH APPEARANCE SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, KIRK'S CONDITION UNKNOWN
—Ace
Update: I saw a close-up of the video. The blood pours out of his neck. I don't want to bring you bad news before it's confirmed, but the odds of him surviving this are extremely low.
Kamala Harris, Who Is Entirely Unemployable and Needs Money Badly, Leaks Passages from "Her" Book to Trick the Public Into Thinking She Will Expose the Truth About Biden
—Ace
But that is all a lie. She is sticking to the Democrat prayerbook that Biden should have stepped down because of the polls, while insisting that he was mentally fit as a fiddle.
Oh, and she also wants you to know that Biden failed to position her for success. In case anyone thought that maybe it wasn't Kamala Harris herself anonymously planting the many, many claims that "Biden's team isn't positioning me for success" in friendly media outlets, but instead just an overly-loyal staffer, no, it was her all along.
Here she gently chastises Biden and his clownwhore wife for putting their egos above the good of the country the Democrat Party.
If you think that sounds tough, it's supposed to, to trick you into thinking this will be a genuine exposé.
It's not. Here she insists she never saw Biden show any signs of mental unfitness, not once, not a single solitary time. Not even when he attempted to summon a ghost to the stage.
She once again shows her DEI mentality, complaining it's white men's jobs to do the black woman's work for her, again claiming that Biden's team "failed to position her for success."
She tosses in a bonus "There is no way to fix the border," despite Trump having fixed it in, what was it, 30 days?
She does not believe that her success or failure should depend on her own efforts and abilities, but that everyone else in the world should do her homework for her and Socially Promote her.
Can you imagine a white guy saying this? Of course not, white men know that no one in the world is looking out for us except for our families and God, and we know that there isn't a whole national political party dedicated to making us "succeed" even when we fail.
This reminds me of the dozens of times Kamala Harris leaked it to media allies that her staff just wasn't preparing her enough.
Honey, your staff can write reports for you, but they can't read them for you. Maybe spend a little more time reading at work instead of drinking, huh?
Finally, she say Biden just jelly of her star power.
I think this is pure bullshit. She is letting out the slightest chastisement of Biden while continuing to insist he was mentally fit as a fiddle, just to trick people into buying her cover-up book.
WATCH: Morning Joe STUNNED into silence after Mika reads new Kamala Harris book excerpt blaming Joe Biden’s ego and torching his defiant 2024 run pic.twitter.com/sMBcyJb9GW
The Only Story In America: Feds Lodge Terrorism Charge Against Democrats' Black the Ripper; Trump Demands Death Penalty; Karoline Leavitt Blasts Democrat Judges, Prosecutors, and "Complict" Democrat Media
He has been charged with committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system.
"This brutal attack on an innocent woman simply trying to get to her destination is an attack on the American way of life. Of course, crimes like this affect the victim the most -- Iryna deserves justice, and we will bring justice to her and her family," Russ Ferguson, a US Attorney, said.
Ferguson was forced to hold back tears as he unveiled the federal charge that Brown has been hit with.
Justice Department officials have labeled the stabbing as a "terroristic act."
Decarlos Brown, the man federally charged with murdering 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte commuter train Aug. 22, is now speaking about the horrific slaughter, claiming the government implanted "materials" inside his body to make him butcher the Ukraine refugee.
In a phone interview circulating online, Brown blames "The material. Put it like that. The material using my body. It's that. You know, that's not me.
"I'm talking about just for no reason. But since they did that, since they did that, now they got to investigate the material my body exposed to. Since they want to do all that, now they got to investigate."
The interviewer asks Brown: "She's from the Ukraine ... and you know they got a war ... so I'm just trying to understand, out of all people, why her?"
"I don't have nothing," Brown responded. "They just lashed out on them. That's what happened.
"They lashed out on her. Well I was working out ... Whoever was working the material, they lashed out on her."
Jesse Watters reports that the magistrate who let DeCarlos Brown out of jail just this past January for no bail -- just a signed promise to show up for his next court date -- is a DEI hire without a law degree who is also a "DEI Consultant" and "Racial Equity Organizer."
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
INSANE: Jesse Watters reveals the court that freed Iryna Zarutska's killer is COMPLETELY run by DEI.
A Harris-donor magistrate with no law degree, a clerk who calls herself a "DEI consultant," and "racial equity organizer" and a judge named "DEI Champion of the Year."
"When Brown was arrested yet again in January of this past year, a Democrat judge who I will add was a strong supporter of Kamala Harris, released this insane criminal once again without requiring him to pay any bail."
"Ms. Stokes wasn't elected.
She was nominated by the clerk in Mecklenburg County. The sitting clerk is Alyssa Chin Gary. On her LinkedIn page, she calls herself a clerk and a DEI consultant And her life mission? and a racial Reparations. equity organizer."
"Ms. Stokes was nominated by Judge Carla Archie. Judge Archie isn't just any judge. In 2019, she was the DEI Champion of the Year."
"Is this starting to make sense? Did a woman die because of DEI? This is a DEI court and they have blood on their hands. And if the people in robes are on the same side as the bad guys, that's suicide."
"DEI died when Kamala lost. It's illegal and releasing felons with dozens of arrests for social justice is a crime against the country."
Visibly shaken U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson fights back tears while explaining that DeCarlos Brown Jr is in state custody and how his 1st degree murder charge can be upgraded to a Federal Crime.
- “the maximum punishment is life in prison without parole or the death penalty” pic.twitter.com/XDEoqJZ1N6
BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi announces DOJ has taken over the case of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s murder
"We are going to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. We have taken the case because it’s murder on mass transit. Progressive DAs cannot handle this case. Justice… pic.twitter.com/1vwuLEEqNM
They'll also add hate crime charges -- "I got that white girl."
Karoline Leavitt absolutely blasted soft-on-crime Democrat judges and "prosecutors" for acting as DeCarlos Brown's accomplices in this butchery -- and said the media was "complicit" as well, for covering up every single outrageous crime committed by the Democrats' Protected Class of Murderers.
Iryna Zarutska should still be alive.
But Democrats, liberal judges, and weak prosecutors would rather push a woke, soft-on-crime agenda than lock up violent offenders.
President Trump is doing everything in his power to undo these dangerous policies and keep Americans safe. pic.twitter.com/TSHFl5Tjb7
Fuck BLM, its bullshit DEI/criminal justice "reforms," the knee-bending candy-ass judges/DAs/pols who went along with the lies about racist policing and who created the revolving door for criminals arrested dozens of times and for the clearly mentally ill & dangerous -- all at unspeakable costs to the innocent young women of America. F. THEM. ALL.
The chief difference, of course, being that the “fuck your prayers” crowd directs its anger at people who are in no way responsible for crazy people breaking vigorously enforced laws, whereas the Charlotte murder is 100% the result of institutional malfeasance.
When a government steps onto the road to expropriation of property, it is often a long journey. While the grand, fast expropriations of communism in various forms are certainly real, this method is not preferred by those who wish to boil the frog. A long, slow erosion of property rights and the gradual muscling out of former owners in favor of the state or state-connected cronies is much preferred.
Property taxes and regulation are the obvious examples of this. Just keep pushing on the tax rate. Impose new taxes. Drive taxes inexorably higher every year, until the owners cry uncle and sell. Who gets the property in the sale? People who can afford those high taxes - or who have friends in government who can get them abatements. The former owners get to become renters. If the taxes don't do it, the regulations may. Pass as many rules as possible. Restrict how people use property. If you're truly skilled like California is, make insurance impossible, too. Drive down utility and drive up liabilities until the appeal of ownership vanishes. Sell it off, and get out of the way of the state and her cronies.
I saw two examples of this kind of progression recently, one more subtle than other. The subtle example is old (though new to me) and comes from California. In 2014 and in the midst of a drought, California passed the "Sustainable Groundwater Management Act" (SGMA), which reclassified water rights. Water rights stopped being a thing as such, with groundwater recast as a "shared resource":
The law asserts that groundwater is a shared resource. While it upholds a farmer's right to pump, it imposes rules on its use. For the first time in California history, managers of the state's 140 most overdrawn groundwater basins must balance the amount of water being pumped from, and recharged into, aquifers by 2040. It allows increased pumping during drought only if no major problems result.
With old water rights (or at least standards and practices governing use) gone and water now community property by law, then came the metering of once-private - and still privately-maintained - wells. Then in 2021, as predictable as the sun rising in the east, came the billing:
Growers are billed $246 an acre-foot, the equivalent of an acre of water one foot deep. In four years, (that's this year, and how I learned about it. -ed) fees will jump to $346. Those who allow their property to be flooded with stormwater, helping replenish the aquifer, can earn rebates. The agency also offers inducements, such as efficiency gadgets and incentives to fallow land.
A handful of farms have refused access; their bills are estimated, with stiff penalties added.
Of course. Compliance and the stiff penalties are the point. That and driving agriculture out of business, of course. And fees, as always, continue to rise.
I am originally from Colorado and understand the perils of not enough water. Water can indeed be a "shared resource" and water rights are therefore a ruthless and cutthroat battleground - sometimes literally. The laws are often arcane and puzzling it out can be extremely difficult. But not even Colorado went so far as to just declare that water rights don't exist. It isn't as far along the road as its colonial master is.
Another is so-called "ghost taxes." What is a ghost tax? Also called a "vacant home tax," a ghost tax is an explicit attempt to force owners to sell by making taxes onerous:
These kinds of taxes or fees are imposed on landlords whose properties are vacant and not rented for an extended period of time- typically about six months.
They are used as a tool in a handful of American cities and Canada to encourage property owners to rent or sell their homes and thereby increase the stock of affordable housing.
This article is about Denver, but they aren't the only ones pursuing it. San Francisco tried a version of it (deemed unconstitutional), Oakland and Washington DC have versions of it, Honolulu is also floating the idea, and various foreign cities have equivalents.
In explaining the vacant home fee proposal, Alderman said, "We want to encourage landlords to lower their rents on units that are sitting vacant while people are living outside. Is there a way to incentivize that lowering of rent so the working-class folks and the people experiencing homelessness in Denver have a chance to get into a rental unit? I think vacancy fees might be a way to think about that," said Alderman. "This is one potential option of many that we think is worth exploring."
"I don't think it's unreasonable to ask the housing community, when they have empty units for long periods of time, to consider making those units available to lower-income households," said Alderman.
You're not proposing to "ask." You're proposing to compel by means of extortion. Call it what it is, Ms. Communist. Even if we assume that landlords holding out on price cause street-level vagrancy (they don't), this wouldn't do a thing to fix it. Even in the ideal scenario where rents are all slashed immediately and vacancy falls to zero, it would do nothing to reduce vagrancy. But that won't happen, and it isn't supposed to. That isn't the point. This has nothing to do with vacancy rates and everything to do with extracting cash and forcing sales - sales to those who meet with Ms. Communist's approval.
Waving away water rights, assessing "ghost taxes," driving up liabilities and countless other approaches are all steps down the road of expropriation. The rubes can't be having property. That's only for the politically connected.
And...from commenter "NaClyDog comes this very weird AI-generated video. He thinks it's intriguing. I think it is also creepy, and disturbing because of the entrance of social media and technological manipulation into the art world. Yes, I am a Luddite when it comes to art. I think it should be done by hand. Otherwise it is graphic design, and while pleasing, it is a very different thing.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump pointed out that “unilaterally bombing” Qatar, which has worked “very hard and bravely” to try to broker peace between Israel and Hamas, did “not advance” the goals of the United States or Israel. Trump also expressed that while “eliminating Hamas” was a “worthy goal,” Qatar is a strong ally to the U.S., and he felt “very badly” about the strike.
“This morning, the Trump Administration was notified by the United States Military that Israel was attacking Hamas which, very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the Capital of Qatar,” Trump said. “This was a decision made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me. Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals.”
Define the word "ally" for us Mr. President. Qatar is an ally of convenience, nothing more or less. As an Islamic nation first and foremost they culturally and philosophically do not share our values or ultimate geopolitical aims. About the best you can say about the Qataris is that they allow Hamas to be in their midst because it prevents Hamas from slitting their throats. And that's giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt. Yes, we have a huge military presence in that country but perhaps, all things considered we should rethink that. Oh well, it is what it is. At the end of the day, even if Israel were to utterly decimate the ranks of Hamas, the nature of Islam dictates that some other entity will emerge to take its place, perhaps under a different name but the 1500 year and counting quest to slit the throats of every Jew on the planet will go on. Even if Trump knows this, I suppose it is a huge domestic and international third rail he'd be stepping on if he were to utter that undeniable truth, and that's giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace during a widespread Russian attack in western Ukraine on Wednesday, with the NATO member calling the incursion “an act of aggression.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he was in “constant contact” with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Tusk has called for an emergency meeting of the council of ministers at 8 a.m., a government spokesman said.
Poland’s military command said drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace during the Russian attack across the border, in western Ukraine, but that operations against these violations had now concluded.. .
. . .“Some of the drones that entered our airspace were shot down. Searches and efforts to locate the potential crash sites of these objects are ongoing,” it said in a statement.
It urged people to stay at home, naming the regions of Podlaskie, Mazowieckie, and Lublin as most at risk, adding: “This is an act of aggression that posed a real threat to the safety of our citizens.”
. . .NATO has yet to comment on the incident. Since the war started in 2022, there have been several incidents of Russian drones entering the airspace of states bordering Ukraine, including Poland and Romania, but they have so far avoided shooting them down. Officials have cited the physical danger that such actions could cause and a desire to avoid an escalation in tensions between Russia and NATO.
Back here in the US-of-A, I posted a poll yesterday by our good friends at the estimable Heartland Institute in conjunction with Rasmussen about the sentiments of young voters that is disturbing in their attitudes about the direction of the nation.
And the beat goes on as Heartland/Rasmussen has released a couple more polls that are painting a rather frightening picture of the future political landscape of America. One of them is again in the lead.
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Young Voters Support Income Caps, 40% Support Penalties for Free Speech, and 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States
There are polls and then there are polls as we know all too well. Over the past few months, I have also reported on polls that seem to indicate just the opposite; a very significant shift of the youth vote away from the Left and and heavily towards the Right if not towards Trump/MAGA him/itself.
The contradictory nature of these polls is something that both CBD and I will raise with our very special guest, Jim Lakely the Comms director at Heartland on the upcoming podcast that will post a bit later today, so stay tuned for that.
While we're on that subject, we also have the Democrat Party itself seemingly tearing itself apart over the rise of this horrid scumbag Zohran Mamdani likely to be installed into Gracie Mansion as NYC's next mayor largely with the votes (legit and otherwise) of a sizable number of the city's youth, far too many of the self-gassing apostate Jews-by birth only and other fools, degenerates and the usual gang of idiots aka registered Democrats. This despite some pretty loud protests from very well-known Democrat pollsters, pols and pundits who see him and see disaster for their party. But, do they have it wrong? Is in-your-face socialism/Communism the future unmasked face of the Democrat Party?
On that note, John Fetterman, the improbable and at first glance laughable Democrat senator from Pennsylvania who we once derided as Lumpy, continues to pleasantly surprise me with his rationality and sanity in the face of the vile insanity of the positions that his party has embraced not just of late but historically in its unslakable thirst for absolute power and control.
First was his full-throated and unwavering support of the state of Israel and unequivocal condemnation of Hamas in the wake of the latter's terrorist mass wave assault and subsequent dark age savagery across southern Israel on 10/7. His words were the diametric opposite of much of the rest of his party, save for its leadership who at best knew that they had to fake even a tepid support of Israel to preserve the Jewish voting bloc and stave off the rusty hacksaws of the Hamas-niks of the "SQUAD" and their ilk.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized Democrats who have been warming up to and embracing socialism while dismissing capitalism, describing them as “morons.”
. . . “Senator, there’s a Gallup poll that was released that 42 percent of Democrat voters view capitalism favorably, while 66 percent of Democrat voters view socialism favorably. Do you think that’s a messaging issue for Democrats?” a reporter asked.
“Oh, that’s a great, it’s a great question,” Fetterman responded. “I literally was in a former communist nation, and I asked that. I said, ‘Some people in my party, some of the lefties are talking about socialism now. What do you think?’ And he’s like, ‘That’s the worst thing ever. You would never want to live here, I’ve lived through that kind of a thing. You’re going to need a reality check if you ever adopt any of those things. You know, like, you are morons. It’s like, it was a nightmare for us, and now we are a free market nation.’ It was Croatia.”
. . . Fetterman continued to note that people in Croatia were “mystified” why Americans are “even having that conversation in our nation.”
Obviously not "morons" in the Ace of Spades HQ sense of the word but literal morons.
In a conversation with a friend of mine about the polls, while not dismissing them entirely, he did say that when more of Trump's economic policies kick in, many of these youthful poll respondents might have a very different view of things as their personal situations improve along with the rest of the nation.
It's a fair point, but that said the constant media and cultural drumbeat of "capitalism and Trump evil" along with at least 3 generations of propagandizing from Pre-K through Post-Grad has done quite a bit of damage and warped many minds along the way, as we are all too painfully aware.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
Passengers gathered around in an apparent attempt to massage Iryna Zarutska’s wounds after she was fatally stabbed on the night of Aug. 22, as shown in extended video footage released Tuesday by Headline USA. The suspect, a mentally ill homeless man with a lengthy criminal record, now faces local and federal charges and could be put to death if convicted in federal court, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. (RELATED: Democrat DA Pushed Racial Equity As Crime Spiked Before Horrific Train Stabbing) Bystanders Tried To Help Charlotte Stabbing Victim In Her Dying Moments
Glenn H. Reynolds: In the last few days the horrific stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska by oft-arrested offender Decarlos Brown, Jr. on a Charlotte, NC, commuter train finally broke into the national conversation. National media — aside from this newspaper — studiously ignored the heinous Aug. 22 attack, while Wikipedia’s editors did their best to airbrush it. Why? Because they run interference for Democrats, and the story is political nitroglycerine. Iryna Zarutska’s murder exposes the left’s utter incoherence on crime (They're not incoherent, Glenn; they're EVIL - jjs)
Urban dystopia isn’t confined to New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles—Charlotte, North Carolina, proves the next tier of cities is just as rotten. Iryna Zarutska—and millions of Americans—deserve better. Charlotte’s Crime Sanctuary: You Can’t Spell Violence Without Vi
“Null and void,” Judge Mary Rosado lawlessly declared of Mayor Adams’ executive order reopening an ICE office on Rikers Island, as she invented an entirely new “legal” standard to reach her desired conclusion. That is, the problem was an “impermissible appearance of a conflict of interest” because she believes the mayor was simply out to please President Donald Trump. An appearance; reality is apparently irrelevant in Rosado’s chambers. Manhattan Hack-in-black shit-whore judge’s ruling against ICE on Rikers is blatantly lawless
After Sciutto cut in to say that they will need some Democrat votes, Ansari responded, “Correct. And, again, my view is unless they are going to roll back some of the egregious policies that they passed a couple of weeks ago, unless they’re going to make sure that Medicaid isn’t cut, unless they’re going to take away funding from ICE, which they quadrupled in the last budget, then I do not intend to vote for this budget.” Wog Shit-whore Dem Rep. Ansari: I’ll Shut Down Gov’t if We Don’t ‘Take Away Funding From’ ‘Rogue’ ICE
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine’s outrageous claim that our rights come from government and not God should be condemned by every religious leader in Virginia. Sen. Tim Kaine Doesn’t Deserve to be Called a Virginian (the title he deserves ASAP is "the Late unlamented" - jjs)
The U.S. economy added nearly a million fewer jobs in the year through March 2025 than previously reported, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The revision, the largest on record, suggests job growth during that period was running at roughly half the pace initially believed. Biden’s Final Flop: 911,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported in the Year Through March
In a post on Truth Social, Trump pointed out that “unilaterally bombing” Qatar, which has worked “very hard and bravely” to try to broker peace between Israel and Hamas, did “not advance” the goals of the United States or Israel. Trump also expressed that while “eliminating Hamas” was a “worthy goal,” Qatar is a strong ally to the U.S., and he felt “very badly” about the strike. (UGH, Mr. President - jjs) Trump Responds to Israel Strike on Hamas Leaders in Qatar: ‘Not a Decision Made by Me’
Israel will even endanger its own men, sometimes leading to their deaths, trying to avoid killing civilians in Gaza, even though a majority of Gazans support jihad against Israel. In contrast, Hamas brutally rapes and murders Israelis of all ages while the Palestinian Authority financially rewards them. Over 400 Genocide Scholars Say That Hamas, Not Israel, Committed Genocide
But the lie has gone two or three times around the world by now. IDF Kills 'Palestinian' Boy, and Then the Boy Gives a TV Interview(Media to compare or declare him to he Jesus Christ, a favorite butchery of history by the 'Palestine' myth hustlers for years. - jjs)
Newsom touts “clean energy” as California’s growth engine, but fact-checks reveal costly mandates, false claims, and heavy reliance on gas, oil, and nuclear to keep the lights on. Fact-Checking Newsom’s ‘Clean Energy’ Claims
Coal, the energy source routinely demonized in Western capitals and at global climate summits, has met nearly all of the ASEAN nation's new electricity needs. (they're not stupid, they're third world - jjs) The developing world embraces coal
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
We were lied to about everything. We were lied to about natural immunity. We were told again and again the vaccines would prevent transmission, they’d prevent infection. It wasn’t true. They knew it wasn’t true from the start, because that’s what the animal studies and clinical trials showed. New study of 300,000 people in Italy proves COVID jab caused gigantic increase in cancer cases
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Cherfilus-McCormick’s campaign began working with Mark Goodrich — a political consultant who had previously worked for Republicans — in 2021, while running in a special election for the south Florida House seat she currently represents. The Coolidge-Reagan Foundation’s Aug. 11 legal complaint to the FEC, based on an investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics’ (OCE), alleges Cherfilus-McCormick’s campaign failed to report illegal in-kind contributions from an organization with ties to Goodrich and the congresswoman’s family. Democrat Florida Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Under Investigation For Alleged Fraud (Is she related to ChikFilA? - jjs
Let's start with Texas, where Republicans are poised to add up to five additional seats through redistricting. That's five more reliable conservative votes in a chamber where control often comes down to a handful of seats. Meanwhile, California Democrats are scrambling to squeeze more seats from an already gerrymandered state. They've already maximized their redistricting potential in the Golden State, leaving little room for meaningful gains even if they pursue further changes. Here's How Badly Democrats Messed up Their Redistricting Gamble
Schwezier said, “I think it’s so important that President Trump is taking a strategic approach to the fentanyl crisis, because Joe Biden thought it was just a healthcare issue. The bottom line is, this is a Chinese operation, the drug cartels are the junior partners.” Schweizer: Cartels Are CCP’s ‘Junior Partners’
The African Union plans to formulate its own reparations demands, following the Caribbean’s call for trillions in compensation. Africa Demands Reparations From Britain.
These start at eight times the price of my Moto G14 from last year, and with the 2TB iPhone 17 Pro Max go up to 21 times the price - ranging from very expensive to painfully expensive.
The iPhone 17 and iPhone Air feature the new six-core A19 chip, while the Pro and Pro Max feature the new six-core A19 Pro chip.
Yeah, Apple is really phoning it in with this announcement.
Specifically that yes they license the software but only the software, not, for example, the user interface that allows you to use the software.
Apparently the key resale market is enabled by European law and Microsoft wants desperately to kill it, but this argument is far worse than the disease itself.
Making it so that AI can drive programs that actually work rather than attempting to do everything itself and inevitably getting it wrong is a potentially positive step, though I'm not sure it's worth $115 billion.
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Pinterest have also sided with Cox.
So have AT&T and Verizon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Library Association, Re:Create, Public Knowledge, the CCIA, the ACLU, a collection of legal scholars, the Internet Society, and the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Scaled down from 12.7" to 11.1" - making it pretty standard for a full size tablet and almost exactly the same size and weight as the budget Idea Tab I mentioned a couple of days ago - it also boasts a 3200x2000 display, which is so sharp you could cut yourself.
It features a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and 12GB of RAM, the same as my Legion Tab, putting it in pretty serious performance territory too.
Price is expected to be $550 when it ships next month.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - September 9, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Surprise - I am now your Tuesday ONT host! This night became vacant when scampydog decided to go chase mailmen instead of hosting ONTs. So I decided to move from Mondays to Tuesdays (along with Sundays and Thursdays).
EDIT: Mondays are currently Under Construction, as CBD noted last night.
The stepfather who always believed in her was with her at the end, as his ashes rested inside her necklace while she crossed the finish line.
Brooke Johnson had just become the first woman to cross the United States on a skateboard—a record-setting 3,226-mile journey that began in Santa Monica, California and ended when she walked into the Atlantic Ocean at Virginia Beach after 119 days on the road.
The 29-year-old lifted her skateboard over her head and couldn’t help but think about Roger, the man who made it all happen—even though he was only there in spirit.
Late in his life, Brooke’s stepfather broke his C5 vertebrae and became a quadriplegic. His health continued to decline until he passed away last year.
As time was running out, stepfather and daughter often talked about Brooke’s dream of cross-country skateboarding, and she planned to push him across the finish line in a wheelchair.
Roger never once doubted that she’d make it.
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“If there’s one thing you take away from this trip, it’s that you can truly do anything you put your mind to.”
Read the whole thing. And hug your loved ones because life is short.
A Texas man has been charged with murder following a game in which he and his friend took turns shooting each other in the head with rifles while wearing Kevlar helmets.
On 17 August, good friends Sean O’Donnell (37) and Aaron Prout (34) were hanging out in the former’s home when they decided to play a very stupid and dangerous game – taking turns shooting each other in the head with a rifle while wearing a Kevlar helmet for protection. Kevlar helmets are used by modern soldiers because they are known to whithstand heavy impacts, but they are not completely bulletproof. In this particular case, the two friends, who had been drinking, were reportedly holding the Kevlar helmet above their heads while the other tried to aim at it with a rifle. All it took was for one of them to miss their shot by a few millimeters to turn their friendly game into a tragedy.
“Hard to believe two so-called friends would take turns shooting at each other wearing a Kevlar helmet, inside a house in a residential neighbourhood, while using a rifle,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote about the incident on X.
Check out the whole story. News coverage video clip at the link.
It SHOULD go without saying - don't mix guns and booze, and don't shoot at your buddy.
Carrying a reusable water bottle is a smart habit. It saves money. It cuts down on single-use plastic. It keeps you hydrated. There’s a catch, though.
Many of us don’t clean our bottles nearly as well or as often as we think we do, and the germs that hitch a ride on our hands, rims, and lids can stick around.
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A study on the campus of Purdue University put everyday bottles under the microscope to see how clean they really are and which habits help or hurt. The takeaway is a reality check with simple fixes that anyone can put into practice.
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The research team kept the question simple: “How clean are the bottles that students actually use all day?”
To get real-world answers, they collected 90 bottles directly from students. They asked owners how they used and cleaned their bottles, then tested the bottles in two ways.
First, they swabbed the outer surfaces using a rapid hygiene test called ATP that lights up when organic residue remains. This signal is widely used in food safety as a quick screen for whether a surface is truly clean after washing.
Second, they rinsed the insides and counted bacteria clinging to water-contact surfaces. They measured common water-loving bacteria and checked for coliforms, an indicator group that can signal when conditions could support more concerning contamination.
Read the whole thing to get the specifics.
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Speaking of fecal matter - the ONT continues a "regular" feature
The Kubota compact tractor was given free to a Vermont maple syrup producer by a special program honoring military veterans who now work in agriculture.
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According to the website of Wild Woods Maple, Niles served the U.S. Army for more than 25 years and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The website says he was also an instructor at the Army Mountain Warfare School in Jericho. After he retired, Niles and his wife, Katie, started Wild Woods Maple and have been growing their family business ever since.
Wild Woods Maple recently earned bragging rights by winning a pair of awards in the 2025 Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans. According to a May 4 Facebook post from the Vermont Maple Festival, Wild Woods Maple took home blue ribbons for "Best of Class" and "Best of Show" for their amber rich syrup.
Cool story - worth checking out.
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DJ Doof - This Date in History Edition
(from thisdayinmusic.com)
Born on this date in 1975: Canadian singer, songwriter and actor Michael Bublé. He found a worldwide audience with his 2005 album It's Time and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible
Born on this date in 1952: Dave Stewart, guitarist, songwriter and producer.
On this date in 1956: Elvis Presley made his first appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan show', performing 'Don't Be Cruel', 'Love Me Tender' and 'Ready Teddy' from the CBS TV Studios in Los Angeles.
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Greta Thunberg distracted the world with a false flag attack on her boat, allowing Israel to eliminate Hamas leadership. And the Left still hasn't figured out she's a Mossad asset.
In a post on X and the company's website, the "Old Country Stores" wrote that "You've shared your voices in recent weeks not just on our logo, but also on our restaurants. We're continuing to listen. Today, we're suspending our remodels. If your restaurant hasn't been remodeled, you don't need to worry, it won't be."
"We heard clearly that the modern remodel design does not reflect what you love about Cracker Barrel," it added. "We had tested this design in only four out of 660 locations, and we won't continue with it. Of course, we will continue to invest in our restaurants to make sure that they are in good shape and meet your expectations."
$700 million of shareholder's former wealth down the drain so that a Woke Girlboss could show off to her hipster Vasser alumnae.
I heard a guy, Cecil Says, explaining the problem with Cracker Barrel: It's stopped making food fresh from scratch and now mostly just reheats pre-prepared, frozen meals. He said that three years ago he ate at Cracker Barrel and it was a fantastic meal. Chicken and waffles or something. But he's been there twice more since then and said both times the food tasted frozen and hospital-like.
But Cracker Barrel won't change that. Preparing meals from scratch again will be too costly.
Instead they'll... spend $700 million on PR and crappy re-branding and then cancel that effort and just flush the $700 million down the toilet.
The CEO, Becky Problem-Glasses, still has a job for some reason.
Nevermind, I know the reason. She's a Woke Leftwing Woman and can only be promoted, never fired. Woke Leftwing Women want all the benefits of engaging in highly-competitive capitalism -- huge salary, big bonus even when you lose money -- but none of the accountability and punishment for failure.
To fight the oligarchy, she must live like the oligarchy.
New York "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- who fancies herself a working-class champion against the ultrawealthy -- appears to have lived it up at ritzy hotels with her team during her cross-country "Fighting Oligarchy" tour with fellow far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), campaign filings suggest.
AOC's campaign shelled out $3,508.92 alone at the Vdara Hotel & Spa -- which boasts a five-star relaxation retreat and posh penthouses -- in Las Vegas during the tour in March.
Baseline prices for some rooms at the ritzy hotel can run up to nearly $1,000, depending on the day.
It was not immediately clear what type of services the darling of the socialist set may have enjoyed at the costly hot spot, what time frame was involved or how many staffers helped rack it up the hefty bill, which was first reported by the Washington Examiner.
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders, a millionaire, began their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour earlier this year to mobilize the country's progressive base against the Trump administration.
Her campaign's Vegas hotel expenditure occurred around the time of a town-hall event she participated in about a 20 minutes away with Sanders and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) in Northern Las Vegas on March 20 to rail against the top 1%.
"The only division that is truly hurting our country the most is the endless greed by those at the very, very top at the cost of everyone else," Ocasio-Cortez proclaimed to cheers from the audience at the time.
Elizabeth Warren raged at RFKJr. for no longer mandating the covid non-vaccine for children. She demanded that he mandate a medically-unnecessary clot shot so that the left's many neurotic hypochondriac child-smotherers could inflict their Munchausen's-Syndrome-By-Proxy mental illness on their children and get it paid for by insurance.
Now Blue States are creating fake findings to force insurers to cover these medically-unnecessary, dangerous shots.
Kathy Hochul, a sexagenarian who Karol Sheinin never tired of pointing out demanded that everyone be masked at all times despite never wearing a mask in public herself, is now rewriting New York health guidelines to claim that physical activity creates a risk of "long covid." She's claiming this so that she can categorize healthy, physically-active children at a heightened risk for covid and thus mandate the clot-shot for them.
Five years after COVID-19 lockdowns punished physical activity outside the home, possibly facilitating adverse events mistaken for biologically elusive "long COVID," the Empire State is explicitly warning residents that exercise is a threat to their health.
The claim that "physical activity" is an "underlying medical condition" that increases a person's risk of "severe COVID" showed up in the New York State Department of Health's guidance to pharmacists and physicians on how to circumvent Trump administration policies so that all New Yorkers ages 3 and up, regardless of health, can get COVID vaccines.
A physician who works in New York and New Jersey sent the Sept. 5 guidance to former Senate pharma corruption investigator Paul Thacker, he said in his newsletter Sunday.
In six steps, the guidance explains how to prescribe "patient-specific orders" for COVID vaccines "off-label," meaning for purposes the Food and Drug Administration hasn't expressly authorized and lists the conditions that trigger the state's strongest recommendation that a given group "should" be vaccinated, one of which is "physical activity."
Vaccine boosters were less friendly to off-label uses during the Biden administration, with his FDA allegedly interfering with doctors' attempts to prescribe ivermectin as a COVID treatment and securing legislative authority to ban off-label uses at will.
"I have never seen any Dept of Health encourage off label prescriptions ever," the physician identified as "Michelle" told Thacker. She's baffled by the physical activity warning: "Your moderate activity that keeps you healthy, keeps your cholesterol down, your blood pressure down, is what they actually say is putting you at risk for severe COVID."
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) proudly announced the names of the other theater-kid members he wants to join him on a new subcommittee investigating what happened on January 6, 2021, and it goes as badly as you imagine.
To kick things off with this clown car, Jeffries named Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) to be the lead Democrat on the new subcommittee.
And as you can expect, Swalwell took the mic and suggested J6 was just like other days that will live in infamy in our history, like Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001.
It's almost too dumb to respond to. But here's the clip and comments in full.
Swalwell says the three "most important dates in American history" since the Civil War are the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on "December 7, 1941, September 11th, and January 6th."
He also called J6 the "worst of wrongs," and he continued to draw a comparison between what happened that day and the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) was next up, and she got a turn to say something crazy when she claimed that the GOP-led J6 subcommittee is nothing more than a distraction from President Donald Trump.
She claimed that it's an attempt to distract from Trump not lowering the cost of food; however, the cost of food has gone down under President Trump, but she can't be distracted by things like facts.
If you're older than 29, you may remember that Oliver North, the Marine who oversaw the alleged arms-for-hostages deal with Iran, was pilloried by the media for having an affair with his secretary, Fawn Hall. Forty years ago.
Apparently, they -- he, 81, she, 65 -- just got married in a "secret ceremony."
Oliver North and his loyal former secretary Fawn Hall reportedly married in secret last month -- 40 years after their leading roles in the infamous Iran-Contra affair.
A copy of the couple's marriage license, obtained by journalist Michael Isikoff, shows North, 81, and Hall, 65, were married in Arlington County, Virginia, on Aug. 27.
"It was a secret marriage," a friend of the newlyweds told Isikoff.
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Hall, North's glamorous secretary at the NSC, was granted immunity by prosecutors investigating the case as she revealed that she destroyed, altered and hid evidence implicating North and others in illegal activity.
The former secretary revealed that she helped North shred mountains of documents related to Iran-Contra after the Justice Department caught wind of the weapons scheme.
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After the scandal, Hall worked as a model in Hollywood, Calif., where she married Danny Sugarman, the manager of rock band The Doors, in 1993.
Hall was married to Sugarman until his death in 2005.
Meanwhile, North went on to found the Freedom Alliance nonprofit for wounded veterans, author several books and host "War Stories with Oliver North" on Fox News from 2001 to 2016. He also served as president of the National Rifle Association in 2018.
North reconnected with Hall last December, at the funeral for his wife of 56 years, according to Isikoff, writing for the "SpyTalk" Substack page.
"She rekindled the relationship at the funeral," a friend of the couple said. "They started spending time together."
Can something that started illicit ever become licit? I don't know, but I think after forty years: Sure, why not.
In a major gut-punch to Michigan's Democrat activist Attorney General Dana Nessel, Governor Whitmer-appointed Judge Kristin Simmins has ignored party allegiance and decided to put an end to the lawfare against 15 innocent Republican electors from the 2020 election, who cast an alternate slate of electoral votes for President Trump in a state where the stunning election results were highly contested by many.
The 8 felony charges against the 15 electors would have carried life sentences for most of them:
COUNT 1: CONSPIRACY- TO COMMIT FORGERY- FELONY: 14 Years and/or $10,000.00 fine.
COUNT 2: FORGERY -- FELONY: 14 Years
COUNT 3: FORGERY -- FELONY: 14 Years
COUNT 4: CONSPIRACY- TO COMMIT UTTERING AND PUBLISHING -- FELONY: 14 Years and/or $10,000.00 fine.
COUNT 5: UTTERING AND PUBLISHING -- FELONY: 14 Years
COUNT 6: CONSPIRACY- TO COMMIT ELECTION LAW FORGERY -- FELONY: 5 Years and/or $10,000.00 fine
COUNT 7: ELECTION LAW -- FORGERY -- FELONY: 5 Years and/or $1,000.00 fine.
COUNT 8: ELECTION LAW -- FORGERY -- FELONY: 5 Years and/or $1 ,000.00 fine.
Recently, The Gatway Pundit shared a stunning video that showed MI AG Dana Nessel on a Zoom call with a far-left group, bragging about how, if the judge (Kristin Simmins) decides to send the alternate electors case to a jury trial, she's set them up to be tried in the deep blue city of Lansing, MI, where it's very likely they won't get a fair jury trial. In other words, Michigan's top law enforcement officer is mocking these 15 mostly senior citizens who are entitled to a fair trial for not being able to receive a fair trial.
CBS "News" Hires Right-Leaning Ombudsman to Reply to Public Criticism Over Its Reportage; Leftwing Propagandists Are Scandalized That Someone Who Leans Right Is Allowed a Job in Their Totally-Nonpartisan "News" Rooms
The new owner of CBS News has hired conservative policy veteran Kenneth R. Weinstein, former president and CEO of Hudson Institute, to be the news outlet's ombudsman.
New owner Paramount made the announcement Monday.
The move comes amid the network's challenge to compete with the country's two other premier, long-time TV news outlets, ABC News and NBC News, and heavy pressure from President Trump about what he and others consider CBS News' political bias.
In July, Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million to settle a legal dispute with Trump regarding an interview last fall the network broadcast with his presidential race rival -- Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump alleges the network deceptively edited the interview, which aired on its "60 Minutes" news program, to "tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party." Paramount did not include a statement of apology or regret.
Last week, CBS changed its interview policy after Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem made similar complaints about her recent "Face the Nation" interview.
From now on, CBS will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews so that the television audience can see the full, unedited interview.
Pretty sure that's wrong -- I think CBS only said that Face the Nation will do this. 60 Minutes will continue editing politicians' words like they're reality show contestants, with Democrats getting the Hero Edit and Republicans getting the Asshole Edit.
In the ombudsman role, Weinstein will review editorial questions and concerns from outside entities and employees.
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"We look forward to welcoming Ken as our new Ombudsman," Paramount President Jeff Shell said in a statement. "At a time when trust in media is more important than ever, this new role reinforces our commitment to truth, trust, and accountability.
The left rushed to congratulate Weinstein on his new job. After all, "news" rooms are completely ecumenical as far as politics, so of course one single conservative-leaning voice is welcome! They're not running a Closed Political Shop, after all!
The New York Times is very upset that CBS selected a former advisor to President Trump & Trump nominee as an ombudsman as part of its new commitment to fair, fact-based reporting.
But diversity of viewpoints is a good thing ! And the NYT could learn a thing or two about that.
A leftwing Karen movie critic sent her congratulations:
Nell Minow (she/her)
@nminow
CBS was once called "The Tiffany Network" for its unimpeachable and fearless commitment to the news. It is a disgrace to see the network that once gave us Edward R. Murrow and the glory days of 60 Minutes cower to the corrupt and incompetent.
Question: If conservatives can't be trusted in media roles -- then why the fuck are communists and left-wingers and even liberals to be trusted?
They lefties always tell us: Our personal politics are not relevant. We put them aside to only report "the facts."
It tells me that you're liars when you immediately assert that no one with conservative politics can similarly compartmentalize them. You're telling on yourselves -- you fill the "news" with your personal (Marxist) beliefs so you assume that everyone else is a propagandist, too.
Not only aren't conservatives welcome -- neither are Jews who do not call for the eradication of Israel.
Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal
With a deal in the works to install Bari Weiss as editor of CBS News, Paramount has installed neocon Hudson Institute leader and former Trump appointee Kenneth Weinstein as CBS ombudsman.
During a 2021 Hudson event with Mike Pence, Weinstein touted his Israel lobbyist creds, describing how he'd been groomed by the Tikvah Fund, the Likudnik training network which will award Bari Weiss its Herzl Award this November. Weinstein also described the right-wing Israel lobby financier Roger Hertog as his "mentor."
During Q&A, after Pence called for the US to wage an unprovoked war on Iran on Israel's behalf, Weinstein chimed in to endorse the proposal.
As support for Israel plummets among American youth and Democratic voters amid a gruesome live-streamed genocide, the stage is set for CBS News' takeover by unabashed Likudnik propagandists desperate to turn back the tide of dissent.
He's got a lot of work to do:
PAGING KENNETH WEINSTEIN: In a wild tease on the Evening News, CBS's John Dickerson accuses SCOTUS of enabling "indiscriminate immigration sweeps in Los Angeles" pic.twitter.com/lJVnR476se
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—Ace
But you weren't allowed to know this. See, if you know how the world really is, you might make decisions based upon how the world really is, rather than based on the fake Propaganda World the Regime has made for you.
Newly released pages from a Nashville child murderer's diary show the gender-confused Christian school shooter calling herself "the Devil's apprentice," writing in multiple personas, and taking the persona of demons. The newly released pages also include drawings of upside-down crosses and the demonic number "666."
On Sept. 8, thanks to a lawsuit from the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty (WILL), the FBI released 525 more heavily redacted pages from writings of the individual who murdered six, including three children, at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee in March 2023. Under President Biden, the FBI had attempted to keep the transgender murderer's writings sealed, obscuring her motives.
In this latest release, the shooter declares would-be mass killers like her want to shoot up churches because of the Christian doctrine that men and women are different. In the wake of the shooting, Biden's FBI sent a memo to local police advising against releasing any information that could turn public opinion against LGBT-identifying people. Four days after the shooting, President Biden issued a statement claiming "Transgender Americans shape our nation's soul."
It appears the 28-year-old child murderer agreed with that but depicted the "soul-shaping" entirely in a demonic direction. Her notebooks are replete with references to the demonic and suggest the shooter may have believed she was demon possessed.
They exhibit different writing personalities and handwriting styles when writing in her given name versus writing in her transgender name. The transgender persona, an "imaginary boy," is "ready to die," she writes, while her given name seeks "forgiveness."
The dates on the writings indicate the shooter created evidence of her plans for mass murder at least four years before she carried them out. The newly released pages from her notebooks include a striking drawing of the shooter as "the Devil's apprentice," dated New Year's Eve 2019.
"The Devil is the king of Evil. I have become his secret apprentice as he is teaching me the ways of the Dark Force and the Dark Side," the Nashville shooter wrote in the newly released notebook pages. "He is infesting my mind with revenge on a grand scale, to [sic] great for my own ability. If I am to one day commit the most infamous school shooting, I will need the Devils [sic] powers."
The article notes that the more recent Trans Terrorist who shot up a Catholic church in Minneapolis also drew pictures of himself becoming the devil's pupil. But you should click on the link for that.
You peons have no right to this information because it might make your stupid brains question the official Regime Narrative and therefore I have forwarded your names to the FBI for investigation for being exposed to this wrongthink.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Has Now Erased 1.7 Million "Jobs" They Claimed Were Created Under Biden (and the First Two Months of Trump's Term)
—Ace
First they erased 818,000 jobs they claimed Biden created. Job numbers that were used to claim that Biden was managing a "Miracle Economy" which was the glory of the world.
And now, they've "corrected" these propaganda numbers again, erasing another 900,000 phantom "jobs."
These numbers go from Biden's last year through March. I think we can say that these "corrections" are mostly about Biden.
And it's time to start talking about criminal investigations.
It's the second year in a row for massive downward revisions, Washington Post econ reporter Heather Long points out. The new numbers show that the US economy added around 75K a month, well below the maintenance level in relation to population growth, for a full year before Trump started imposing new tariffs on trade...
The jobs reports are a monthly release, and according to the numbers they’ve been falsely doubling the jobs reports. How long do they wait to revise it? Well there’s generally a 1 month and 2 month revision. We never got those, so that leans towards intentional misleading. And… pic.twitter.com/pw0yofRF2v
Ed Morrissey, who's usually slow to throw accusations around, says:
Either this is incompetence, or it's corruption. There are no other explanations for consistent misses of this magnitude for two full years with no effective corrections.
The election was rigged. Period. This was a coup.
And the "election fortifiers" need to go to prison just like the J6ers did.
Update:
Fact Check: The 911,000 jobs they faked existing is a record. The only time any administration had gotten close to that many fake jobs reported was...the previous year in the Biden administration when more than 800,000 jobs that didn't exist were reported. Nice try, dickbags. https://t.co/oESbYMaDuD
Stalinist Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg Lies About Being Attacked by an Israeli Drone
—Ace
Via Hot Air, Thunberg decided to troll for clicks again. She had been blocked from entering Gaza in her Sperg Flotilla earlier this year, and now she chartered another Attention Cruise.
We just saw what a missile does to a small boat last week, when Trump vaporized 11 Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists. Missiles do not cause smoky fires that you can put out with a little wall-mounted fire extinguisher.
A flotilla carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg on an aid mission to Gaza has claimed one of their boats was hit by a "drone strike" off the coast of Tunisia on Tuesday morning.
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)'s Family Boat, which is said to be transporting Greta and some 350 other activists, sustained damage to its main deck and below-deck storage when it was struck by what activists said was a suspected drone. They added nobody was hurt in the incident.
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More than 20 vessels from 44 nations make up the GSF, which has embarked on what they described as a "peaceful mission" aiming to break Israel's naval blockade on the embattled Gaza Strip. Joining Ms Thunberg on board are a host of other climate activists and aid workers including journalist Yusuf Omar and human rights activist Yasemin Acar.
The Family Boat, which is transporting the flotilla's steering committee, was anchored about 80km from the port of Sidi Bou Said after arriving in Tunisia over the weekend when the alleged incident took place.
"I was sleeping when I heard this explosion," said journalist Yusuf Omar, who is among the dozens of activists heading towards Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade. "A big explosion happened right next to our diesel tank. The neighbouring boats spotted a drone coming in. They said it flew above basically where I was sleeping, and then it went to the front and detonated," he said in a post on Instagram.
The Tunisian authorities said the explosion originated inside the vessel, suggesting it could have been caused by a cigarette. They added that reports of a suspected drone attack on the flotilla "have no basis in truth".
We now know what happened to the Cluster B Armada: One of the spergy tards decided to play with a flare gun and wound up shooting it into the deck.
Update: Eric the Blade Archimedes says there was no confusion -- they set the fire and then began shouting "We've been hit!"
Greta Thunberg finding out they filmed themselves lighting fire to their own boat. Maybe she should have stayed in high school. pic.twitter.com/gAg6Y8iaC5
Low-T High-Calorie Potato Brian Stelter: "Matthew Dowd is no longer an MSNBC political analyst, according to a network source." Matt Dowd, former Disney Groomer Corporation Political Director and John McCain advisor (of course), is the one who blamed Charlie Kirk's shooting on the real assassin, Charlie Kirk, claiming that Charlie's "hateful words lead to hateful actions."
"For years, the radical left has compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to NAZlS... this type of language is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the terrorism we're seeing in our country today.
And it must stop RIGHT NOW!"
Fat-F*ck Pritzker blames Trump's rhetoric for the ramp up of political violence! May he rot in hell! [CBD]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland.org joins us to discuss the blockbuster polls they have released over the last week. Americans 19-39 seem to be embracing socialism, overt redistributionist policies, destruction of our rights, and international control of our country! But there is hope on the horizon!
Podcast: 2A ban for trannies? Venezuela attack is Congress dropping the ball, RFK Jr...Maniac or disrupter? Heartland.org poll is a sad commentary on American education, and more!
James Varney: Reflecting on Hurricane Katrina twenty years later, and the partisan uses Democrats found for it There was fear aplenty. But the truth is, a lot of the panic Americans saw on television was performative. The throngs of people along Convention Center Boulevard sat patiently in the broiling weather, five or six deep in folding chairs on the sidewalk, waiting for something, someone, to arrive. Then, a television crew or photographer would show up, and people would pour into the street, falling on their knees, screaming and gesticulating to the camera. It was an awful situation, obviously, but when the camera wasn't on them, it was remarkable how patient and orderly everyone was.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click I'm gonna get high, man, I'm gonna get loose/
Need me a triple shot of that juice
Podcast: 600,000 Chinese spies given visas? Scotland relies on 14-year-old girls for their defense, tariffs work! mortgage fraud is the new thing, and more!
The "hip" gray corporate slop era of Cracker Barrel is put on hold (supposedly):
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Cracker Barrel is going back to the old logo. Company statement:
"We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our "Old Timer" will remain. At Cracker Barrel, it's always been - and always will be - about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family. As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon."
Elric the Blade says he's no longer sure that Trump will have the right to appeal in the NY fraud case: Yesterday, I thought that Trump had an appeal as of right on the fraud liability, based upon news reports that cited the second opinion as declining to find in favor of liability. That would give Trump at least 2 dissenting judges for an appeal as of right.
But now, after seeing the actual decisions, I'm not so sure. Sorry, guys. I've never seen or heard of what the second opinion did. They dissented, but ... decided not to dissent? I'm not sure what the effect is in terms of whether Trump has a right to appeal. I doubt anyone does.
I think even if Trump doesn't have a right of appeal, the Court of Appeals (NY's highest court) will take the case. But ... it's a liberal court so who knows how they'll rule.
I have the docket number so I can track what gets appealed to the Court of Appeals. If Trump wants to appeal, I think he might file an appeal as of right and a petition for permission to appeal. His lawyers know this case much better than I, but even they might know what the effect of all the opinions are.
I don't think they'll take the appeal. Judges are lazy and cowardly and will duck any hot potato case they can. These judges are also liberal hacks, and do not want to deliver Trump a full victory.
FBI raids home of John Bolton, former Trump national security advisor "The probe is eyeing multiple instances of the use of classified documents in leaks to news media. NBC reported that the investigation into Bolton began during the Biden administration, but did not go further before President Joe Biden left office in January." [CBD]
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